Re: Web User Verification Screens
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:04:10 -0400
You know, if all of the characters were grade 2 braille and a really minimal
system was designed to "encrypt" (maybe adding dot 1 to char 1, dot 2 to char
2...) it would probably fool most systems as they wouldn't have the foggiest
idea what they are looking at. Kind of like Navajo - if you speak the language,
there's no code to break which can confound an opponent.
cdh
On Aug 17, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Peter Donahue wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Also include the ability to make this information available to screen
> readers while hiding it from spam bots. There are people being left behind
> such as the deaf-blind. Audio captchas won't work if you cannot hear them.
> This population is tired of being left out of Web accessibility.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Ladis" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:48 AM
> Subject: Web User Verification Screens
>
>
> Hello all. I have been running into more and more of the web based
> verification screens that ask me to read a bunch of scrambled text, which I
> usually cannot. Sometimes they offer a "speak it out loud" link, but that
> often gets stepped on by JAWS announcing the popup. There are third party
> solutions to the problem, but they require that the user knows about them
> and that they work correctly with their browser.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for a good replacement for the screen that would:
>
> 1. Present the scrambled text
>
> 2. Speak it out loud without a popup
>
> 3. Be portable across the many platforms
>
> ?4. Be a simple replacement to existing solutions
>
>
>
> I feel that it would be a huge advantage to have all of the necessary
> features built into an accessible control that I could present to some of
> the major web sites for their use, to replace the mess that is spreading
> across the web with the many solutions which all have problems.
>
>
>
> Maybe something like a Macromedia Flash control but accessible and portable.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Ladis a
>
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